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January 19, 2024
Developer Roy Longbottom, who has been personally benchmarking computer systems large and small for more than 50 years, has published a look at how the venerable Cray-1 supercomputer stacks up agai…
January 2, 2024
Supercomputer out matched by a Raspberry Pi The UK government’s supercomputers in the 1970s would now be outclassed by a Raspberry Pi according to one...
December 31, 2023
Roy Longbottom worked for the U.K. covernments Central Computer Agency from 1960 to 1993, and "from 1972 to 2022 I produced and ran computer benchmarking and stress testing programs..." Known as the official design authority for the Whetstone benchmark), Longbottom writes that "In 2019 (aged 84)...